08/25/2026
In November 2011, after nearly a year on the run, Florida authorities finally arrested Oneal Ron Morris, a woman with no medical training, no license, and no legitimate qualifications of any kind, who had spent years posing as a cosmetic surgeon.
Morris, then 30, offered buttock and body enhancement injections to women seeking a curvier figure, often meeting clients in motels or their own homes, sometimes wearing a nurse's uniform and a photo ID to appear credible. One victim, referred to Morris by an acquaintance, paid $700 in May 2010 for a procedure that turned out to involve nothing close to legitimate medical materials. Investigators say Morris injected a mixture of cement, mineral oil, bathroom caulking, and Fix-a-Flat tire sealant directly into the woman's buttocks, then sealed the injection sites shut with super glue and cotton balls. When the pain became unbearable during the procedure, Morris reportedly reassured her patient that everything was fine.
It wasn't. The woman developed severe infections and sores, making repeated trips to the hospital too embarrassed to explain what had actually happened to her, until her mother eventually brought her in and doctors, recognizing no licensed physician would ever use these materials, alerted Florida's Department of Health.
Investigators later confirmed Morris had performed the same procedure on herself. Additional victims came forward in the following years, including three more women who told police they'd paid between $1,000 and $4,000 each for similar injections, all suffering complications and infections that required medical treatment.
The most serious consequence came in 2012, when 32-year-old Shatarka Nuby died in Tallahassee. A medical examiner determined she suffered massive systemic silicone migration throughout her body, a direct result of injections she'd received from Morris years earlier. Nuby had reportedly written to Florida's health department from prison months before her death, describing her buttocks as hardened and discolored and naming Morris as the person responsible.
Morris was charged with manslaughter alongside the earlier counts of practicing medicine without a license. She ultimately pleaded no contest and was sentenced in 2017 to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of probation.
The case became one of the more widely cited examples of the real danger behind unlicensed, black-market cosmetic procedures, work that continues to draw people in specifically because it costs a fraction of what a licensed provider would charge, with consequences that, for at least one woman, proved fatal.
